Blip is a platform for web series and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions. The company was founded in May 2005, is located in New York City, and is financed by Bain Capital Ventures and Canaan Partners.

Founded in May 2005 by Mike Hudack (CEO), Dina Kaplan, Justin Day (CTO), Jared Klett, and Charles Hope, blip.tv was bootstrap funded by its founders for the first year of its operation.

As of 29 July 2007 (2007 -07-29)^[update], Blip.tv was blocked by the Chinese Government, in an attempt to make the site unavailable to Chinese mainland users.

As of April 2011^[update], Blip.tv was blocked by Turkey.

In May 2011, Blip.tv launched its consumer destination site.

In December 2011, the company rolled out a new logo and name, dropping the .tv.

With a focus on serial web show programming to the exclusion of other types of online video, "the Blip.tv formula purposefully does not emulate the YouTube viral video sharing and friends and family video hosting model", according to ZDNet writer Donna Bogatin.

Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band based in Portland, Oregon. They were formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About, their lineup has centered around Brock, Green and Judy. Guitarist Johnny Marr (formerly of The Smiths) joined the band in May 2006, along with percussionist Joe Plummer (formerly of the Black Heart Procession) and multi-instrumentalist Tom Peloso, to work on the album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Guitarist Jim Fairchild joined the band in February 2009. Their name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story "The Mark on the Wall" which reads, "I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."

Ray William Johnson (born 1981-1982) is an American actor and comedian best known for his YouTube series Equals Three, in which he provides commentary on viral videos. Many of the videos featured on Equals Three are noted to have received an additional boost of popularity. As of May 2012, the RayWilliamJohnson channel is the most subscribed channel on YouTube, with over 5.4 million subscribers, and over 1.7 billion video views. In February 2011, one industry publication noted that Johnson currently had six of the top twenty most watched videos of the month.

Johnson graduated from Norman North High School in Oklahoma, in 1999, however Johnson's Youtube profile states he was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Johnson says that he studied at Columbia University, as a history major, while his profile adds he was preparing to study law. While at Columbia, Johnson started his first formatted show, Equals Three, as a way to combine two popular video styles, watching viral videos and video bloggers.